ReviewJournal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology
Pooled biological specimens for human biomonitoring of environmental chemicals: opportunities and limitations.
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- Guidance on minimum information requirements (MIR) from designing to reporting human biomonitoring (HBM).Environment international · 2025Article
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- Identifying Populations with Elevated PFAS Exposure by Targeted Serum Sample Pooling.Exposure and health · 2025Article
- Current-use pesticide exposures in remote Inuit communities.International journal of circumpolar health · 2024Article
- Regression analysis of group-tested current status data.Biometrika · 2024Article
- Suspect Screening Analysis of Pooled Human Serum Samples Using GC × GC/TOF-MS.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
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- Variability of Urinary Concentrations of Phenols, Parabens, and Triclocarban during Pregnancy in First Morning Voids and Pooled Samples.Environmental science & technology · 2021Article
- Generalized additive regression for group testing data.Biostatistics (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
- Lymphaticovenous Anastomosis Supermicrosurgery Decreases Oxidative Stress and Increases Antioxidant Capacity in the Serum of Lymphedema Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Beyond the Extracellular Vesicles: Technical Hurdles, Achieved Goals and Current Challenges When Working on Adipose Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- From mixed effects modeling to spike and slab variable selection: A Bayesian regression model for group testing data.Biometrics · 2020Article
- Vitamin Bullets. Microencapsulated Feeds to Fortify Shellfish and Tackle Human Nutrient Deficiencies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2020Article
- Bioaccumulation of PCDD/Fs in foodstuffs near Bien Hoa and Da Nang airbases: assessment on sources and distribution.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2019Article
- Adaptive elastic net for group testing.Biometrics · 2019Article
- Determination of Varying Group Sizes for Pooling Procedure.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
Biomonitoring has become the "gold standard" in assessing chemical exposures, and has an important role in risk assessment. The pooling of biological specimens-combining multiple individual specimens into a single sample-can be used in biomonitoring studies to monitor levels of exposure and identify exposure trends or to identify susceptible populations in a cost-effective manner. Pooled samples provide an estimate of central tendency and may also reveal information about variation within the population. The development of a pooling strategy requires careful consideration of the type and number of samples collected, the number of pools required and the number of specimens to combine per pool in order to maximise the type and robustness of the data. Creative pooling strategies can be used to explore exposure-outcome associations, and extrapolation from other larger studies can be useful in identifying elevated exposures in specific individuals. The use of pooled specimens is advantageous as it saves significantly on analytical costs, may reduce the time and resources required for recruitment and, in certain circumstances, allows quantification of samples approaching the limit of detection. In addition, the use of pooled samples can provide population estimates while avoiding ethical difficulties that may be associated with reporting individual results.
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